Hi all,
I think these two pull requests from Corentin are either good to go or
practically there, they just needs a couple more eyes on them.
https://github.com/yt-project/yt/pull/1548https://github.com/yt-project/yt/pull/1555
We don't have a lot of Ramses experience among the people who commonly
review code so I understand why there's some reluctance. That said, I don't
think you need Ramses experience to understand what's going on.
If you have a chance to look these over, I'd appreciate it.
-Nathan

Hi all,
I am working on a new yt frontend for the Enzo-P code. Enzo-P outputs
runtime parameters in a libconfig format and I am looking for a reliable
package to read this.
yt has a libconfig-style reader in yt/utilities/pyparselibconfig, but it
does not seem to parse Enzo-P parameter files correctly. I have tried a
few other python libconfig parsers that do parse them correctly, so I
believe the problem is with the yt module. For what it's worth, the only
use of yt's libconfig parser is in the Enzo frontend for a certain style of
Enzo-3.0 data, but it doesn't look like this is being tested, nor do we
host any sample data of this format.
I have a PR open for the Enzo-P frontend here
<https://github.com/yt-project/yt/pull/1490> that makes use of an external
package, called libconf <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/libconf>. I've
implemented this as an on-demand import, so it will only be required if
you're actually loading Enzo-P data.
The pros for libconf are that it's pure python, pip installable, has a
permissive MIT license, and works in both python 2 and 3. The con is of
course that this adds a new dependency. Personally, I would prefer not
having to maintain our own module to do this, but I'm open to other
opinions.
What are people's thoughts on adding this dependency?
Britton

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Hi all,
I hope everyone's semester if starting off well.
I'd like to nominate Corentin Cadiou (@cphyc on github) as a yt project
member. Corentin has been regularly contributing for almost a year now,
sending in high-quality contributions, including bugfixes and improvements
for RAMSES and other octree AMR data. I'd like to recognize his
contributions up until now and empower further contributions by nominating
him as a yt project member.
According to YTEP-1776 (
http://ytep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/YTEPs/YTEP-1776.html), we need
positive votes from three additional yt project members to accept the
nomination.
Once that happens I will update the website and the YTEP and add Corentin
to the yt org on github. Corentin, once that happens please feel free to
add a short bio on the website under the project members page.
-Nathan

Hi Ole & All,
Sorry I missed your earlier email, I moved to Germany this summer and
getting things settled had me very busy for the last few months. I've been
building the debian package on my workstation at my former university, I'm
going to move it to a VPS I've set up and try automating the build process
a bit more so that it won't rely on my free time quite as much. I'm going
to try and fix these bugs this week, I'll update you Friday about what I'm
able to get done. Thanks for the patience!
Ben Keller
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Ole Streicher <olebole(a)debian.org> wrote:
> Dear yt developers,
>
> as you may know, yt has an official Debian package, and is delivered
> with our current stable version:
>
> https://packages.debian.org/stretch/python3-yt
>
> The current version, however, needs some love: we don't have the newest
> version; the current one (3.3.3) fails to build with the current Cython
> version, and it does not build anymore on many of our platforms. It has
> now three release critical bugs:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/854195
> https://bugs.debian.org/867197
> https://bugs.debian.org/873511
>
> I already tried to contact Ben for this, but did not get a response. The
> package seems to be popular, and it is used by a number of people, so it
> would be great if we could bring it back into a good shape.
>
> Best regards
>
> Ole
>